bush league

Word Origin & History

"mean, petty, unprofessional," 1906, from baseball slang for the small-town baseball clubs below the minor league where talent was developed (by 1903), from bush (n.) in the slang sense of "rural, provincial," which originally was not a value judgment.

Example Sentences for bush league

But I do think that in one respect New York is in the bush league, so to speak.

The first day we was out for practice they was a young outfielder from a bush league and Mgr.

The great Ty Cobb first made them "sit up and take notice" in a bush league.

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